She weighs about 8 pounds, moves with the speed of a Mack truck heading up the Donner Pass and has the power to inflict some pain. She also is as impossibly cute and improbably cuddly as a wild animal ...

When Emily in Canada asked for help identifying what species of porcupine she photographed here in NatGeo's Your Shot, we turned to Uldis Roze of Queens College at the City University of New York, who ...

The African Crested Porcupine is the largest porcupine in the world. Unlike the American Porcupine, the African Crested Porcupine does not have a barb on the end of its quills. Many people ask if the ...

Instantly recognizable from the sharp, spiky quills covering their bodies, porcupines are among the largest rodents on earth. Present on every continent except Antarctica, there are 30 species of ...

The fat, waddling, brown-black-&-yellowish-white, bead-eyed, strong-toothed, sharp-quilled porcupine of the West (erethizon epixanthum) has been protected for years for the same reason that porcupines ...

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Blandford Nature Center will soon debut their newest wildlife addition and first porcupine. Timmy the porcupine was brought to the nature center by Cathy Lindstrand, a doctor of ...

Fern, an American Staffordshire terrier mix, was found with more than 850 porcupine quills in her face. She is slowly recovering but still has some quills to remove.

PRINCETON (CBS) – First it was an owl, now a porcupine. Massachusetts animals appear to have an interest in soccer. The Rutland Regional Animal Control officer posted on Friday that she freed a young ...

PARKER, Colo. (CBS4)- Canello the dog is on the mend after a run-in with a porcupine. Animal control officers in Douglas County were able to catch up with the stray dog but not until he had already ...